Tagg: podcasts

Sundays now means long distance running, and the program for
today was a 17 km run at around 1.42-1.59. I finished at 1.48, which I’m fairly pleased
with, however, the program describes this as slow pace. I don’t know
if I agree with that. In two weeks I have to run 18 km in the same time, and preferably
a little faster. That’s going to be interesting. I haven’t been to Löplabbet to
try out new shoes, so I fished out the old ones they recommended to me five years
ago, and they worked beautifully. Ran 6 km with them yesterday and didn’t feel a thing
today. We’ll see how my legs like it tomorrow.

I listened to the Rory Blyth.Net
Rocksshow during
the run, and it was fun, if a little more devoid of actual content than the Sam
Gentile one. However, I think it’s great news
that Rory will co-host the show from now on, I think he’ll make an even better
host than interviewee. Just make sure he’s got plenty of his drug of choice before
you start to record.

The training
program said to run 8 km in 48 minutes today, but as I’m still letting my legs
rest, I again went on the Precor elliptical trainer,
aiming for a 15 kcal/min pace. Since I wasn’t totally exhausted after the first few
minutes I increased the resistance over and over until I hit an (for me) insane resistance
and pace. I managed to keep that pace until the end, which gave an average of 20.12
kcal/min, or a little over 1000 kcal (or is that one mcal?) in 50 minutes. I feel
a little suspicious of that machine, it felt a little too easy. Or maybe I’m just
getting super fit.

A third explanation may be that I skipped the music, instead listening to the .NET
Rocks radio show, the episode
with Sam Gentile. My JOS MP-100 has
WMA support, but I’ve never found a use for it until now. The episode was fairly uninteresting,
but Sam’s critique of COM
Interop, and particularly the RCW system,
was spot on. However, I do disagree with hosts about the importance of the other Interop
direction (CCW),
since I’m currently working inside a COM framework in which I’d like to plug in .NET
classes. There’s got to be a lot of COM based frameworks around still, no?

Next time I’m going to listen to the Rory
Blythshow —
his blog is hilarious, and I hope the show is as well.